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One solution to New York City's stop-and-frisk problem is for Judge Shira A. Scheindlin of Federal District Court in Manhattan to appoint a federal monitor who would undertake a comprehensive review of the training and training material used by the New York Police Department (news article, Aug. 2).
We believe that the training and written training material are not in compliance with the Supreme Court decision of Terry v. Ohio, which set the standard on the subject. Consequently, thousands of officers are receiving incorrect or imprecise information with a result that they believe they have more discretion to frisk New Yorkers than the law allows.
Addressing and monitoring the training could go a long way toward remedying this problem. Certainly, Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly's obstinate refusal to remedy it requires federal court intervention, in the same way that civil rights violations did in the South in the '60s.
NORMAN SIEGEL
IRA GLASSER
New York, Aug. 2, 2013
The writers are former executive directors of the New York Civil Liberties Union and the American Civil Liberties Union, respectively.
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